Only 300 individual birds in New Zealand have any sort of protection from H5N1, which has devastated wild birds and domestic ...

Avian flu has arrived in New Zealand, riding along with a sick skua. Scientists have been worried about this moment for ...

My journey began when I saw a photograph of two women laughing in front of a road sign that read ‘Forgotten World Highway’, part of a slide show played during the funeral of a dear friend. Thelma and ...

What would New Zealand’s history be like without the world wars? The terrible Russian winter and Napoleon’s folly may be to blame for those catastrophes, accord­ing to historian Adam Zamoyski’s ...

The social security act was passed 50 years ago in September 1938. It was the culmina­tion of the Labour government’s efforts to ensure its citizens would never again suffer the poverty experienced ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

According to my dictionary, “fiord” (also “fjord”) is a Norwegian word meaning a long, deep, narrow inlet of the sea with steep, often mountainous sides, originally eroded by glaciers. By this ...

The difference between exploring and being lost is the ability to return home. Te Rā tells the story of Māori voyaging and weaving technology, and has finally returned home—for now. It’s a cold winter ...

The Mackenzie Country is a unique New Zealand landscape: raw, open, full of light. This tussock wilderness is a world away from the organised patchwork quilt of Canterbury, yet is separated from it by ...

“As soon as we die, we enter into fiction,” said the late English writer Dame Hilary Mantel. “Once we can no longer speak for ourselves, we are interpreted.” In the case of transported ...

In 1986, when Suzanne Heywood was 16, her father drove her to a tiny bach on the shore of Lake Rotoiti and left her there. She was to care for her younger brother while their parents took paying ...

For a year, the coastline north of Kaikōura was home to a unique albino kekeno pup affectionately called Golden Boy. Department of Conservation scientists first spotted the ginger fur seal in February ...